SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Carol Ball's day begins in the dark, in another state. By the time she arrives at work, crosses a snowy parking lot and enters the austere one-story Planned Parenthood clinic here, she has flown 200 miles to do something no South Dakota doctor will do.

Ball performs elective abortions. She is one of four doctors who travel anonymously, for security reasons, to the lone clinic in a state that has seen some of the nation's fiercest battles over reproductive rights. The work is framed by worry and frustration -- and the knowledge that the politics remain as unsettled as ever.

This is a difficult time for Ball and her colleagues. Last month, Scott Roeder told the jury in his Kansas murder trial that he stalked George Tiller, the nation's most prominent abortion provider, for years before he walked up to him in a church and shot him once in the head.

"If someone did not stop George Tiller, he was going to continue as he had for 36 years," said Roeder, who was convicted of premeditated murder. "The babies, they were going to continue to die."

Roeder, who is scheduled to be sentenced early next month, personifies the worst fears of the small, connected community of doctors that Ball inhabits. Unlike Tiller, she does not do late-term abortions, and she has not received threats. But her trips are carefully orchestrated by security officers, and she declined to allow her face to be photographed for this article.

Thirty-seven years after the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in its landmark Roe v. Wade decision, the nation remains deeply divided. To Ball, the national debate has turned her work into a political act.

Ball entered medical school at the Mayo Clinic in 1973, the year Roe was decided. She did not count herself radical: "I was white, upper-middle-class suburban. I still don't see myself as edgy." Nor did abortion seem controversial to her: "It was legal. It was right. . . . Why would anyone argue with that?"

Being legal DOES NOT make something right, and this woman's active participation makes her a MURDERER.

"...over reproductive rights" is the sort of semantic bastardization that follows when freedom of religion is allowed to be interpreted as freedon from religion. It is the same twist of logic and language that allows liberals to distort discussions about almost any topic.

This isn't about "reproductive" rights, it is about slaughtering babies in the womb.

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posted on 02/28/2010 12:27:06 PM PST
by Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)

“Now, I say, ‘I work for Planned Parenthood,’ because I’m not going to mince words anymore,” she says.”
No, you just mince babies.
On another note, if abortion is “just” a surgical procedure that is so right why are all these so called patients crying? Why does the baby killer doctor say that they are so familiar with tears? I didn’t cry when a surgeon cut a sebaceous cyst out of my back even though it hurt like hell. Gee. I wonder why.

Well, if you asked the muredress, she’d tell you it’s because all of the SD doctors are afraid for their lives, and that the whackos in SD would kill them all. I bet she’d say that she’s talked to lots of her SD colleagues and they all told her that.

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